Minuscule 612 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 297 (von Soden), is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Palaeographically it has been assigned to the 12th century.K. Aland, M. Welte, B. Köster, K. Junack, "Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments", Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, New York 1994, p. 83. The manuscript is lacunose. Formerly it was labeled by 134a and 167p.
Description
The codex contains the text of the Acts of the Apostles, Catholic epistles, and Pauline epistles on 370 parchment leaves (size ), with lacunae (Acts 1:1-2:47). The lacking text was supplied by a later hand. The text is written in one column per page, 19 lines per page. It contains Prolegomena.
The order of books: Acts, Pauline epistles, and Catholic epistles. Hebrews is placed after Epistle to Philemon.
Text
The Greek text of the codex Aland did not place in any Category.
History The manuscript was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Johann Martin Augustin Scholz. It was examined by Pasinus. Gregory saw the manuscript in 1886.
The manuscript was destroyed by fire.
The manuscript currently is housed at the Turin National University Library (B. V. 19; 33 folios in B. VI. 43), at Turin.
See also
List of New Testament minuscules Biblical manuscript Textual criticism
References
Further reading
W. Reader, Entdeckung von Fregmentem aus zwei zerstörten Minuskeln (338 und 612), Biblica 61, (1980) 407–411.